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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Author(s) : Julia Kristeva

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Publisher : Columbia U.P.
Published : February 2024
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 248
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 711
ISBN 13 : 9780231214575
ISBN 10 : 023121457X

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Dazzling.
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Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, which theorizes the notion of the ‘abject’ in a series of blisteringly insightful analyses, is as relevant, as necessary, and as courageous today as it seemed in 1984.
Peter Connor, Barnard College

Critics who seek an alternative to sexist and, in general, imperialist practices in psychoanalytic writing will want to read [this book].
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1. Approaching Abjection
2. Something to Be Scared Of
3. From Filth to Defilement
4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination
5. Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
6. Céline: Neither Actor nor Martyr
7. Suffering and Horror
8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite
9. "Ours to Jew or Die"
10. In the Beginning and Without End...
11. Powers of Horror

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About the Author(s)

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

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